{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-811.365","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 811.365","heading":"Illegal U-turn; penalty.","body":"(1) A person commits the offense of making an illegal U-turn if the person is operating a vehicle and the person turns the vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction in any of the following places:\n      (a) Within an intersection where traffic is controlled by an electrical signal. This paragraph does not apply where posted otherwise.\n      (b) Upon a highway within the limits of an incorporated city between intersections.\n      (c) At any place upon a highway where the vehicle cannot be seen by another driver approaching from either direction within a distance of:\n      (A) 500 feet within the incorporated limits of a city; or\n      (B) 1,000 feet outside a city.\n      (2) The offense described in this section, illegal U-turn, is a Class C traffic violation unless commission of the offense contributes to an accident. If commission of the offense contributes to an accident, the offense is a Class B traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §629; 1995 c.383 §63]\n(Lane Use)","path":["19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation","59. Oregon Vehicle Code","Chapter 811 — Rules of the Road for Drivers"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors811.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:18Z","sha256":"ae8032bd51b72903a5ced56351c8a0539f37510bc57f3d95e93242e9c14a1fef","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-811.360","next":"us-or/ors-811.370"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}